On October 28, the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.75 to 4 percent, and two of its voting members wanted another increase. President Trump wants rates cut to 1 percent or lower. The two s ...

Americans face a high-stakes choice between two competing economic visions. One makes it easier to build, invest, and grow.

Anyone following this midterm cycle has grappled with the same puzzling question: Why is the president repeatedly commenting on Jon Husted’s glutes?

Anthropic has filed to go public — stock ticker symbol ANT on Nasdaq, with a projected valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 ...

Since World War II, Washington has leveraged the global presence of U.S. companies to advance its national security interests. AI models are the latest arena where U.S. and Chinese technology firms ...

America’s banks are immensely self-conscious. That is the finding of a report, published recently by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), on the subject of debanking. But for the ...

In a profits and loss sense, a mutual insurance company is a fiction. That’s because the policyholders are the company. Which is a crucial distinction, one that recalls a famous motto. “We ...

New York’s leaders have been spending money on a credit card that nobody ever tries to pay off. Now the state has the highest per-capita debt load in the nation.

There was mostly good news in the headline GDP number of 3.4% for the third quarter of 2026. We’re most excited about the blockbuster blowout number in investment, which jumped 12.7%. Equi ...

In August, I wrote in RealClearMarkets that the artificial-intelligence boom was beginning to look like a high-tech version ...

I want to thank Sarah Wilson for her recent piece in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (Rule 14a-8: Perhaps There’s Another Way). In her October 7 post she went looking for wh ...